Impartial Strictures on the Poem Called "The Pursuits of Literature:": And Particularly a Vindication of the Romance of "The Monk" ...J. Bell, 1798 - 56 من الصفحات |
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... idea is neither novel , nor confined to him . I have read fomewhere or other of an author long before his time , who , inftigated by motives equally patriotic , and a like vanity of his own talents , pro- pofed either to disengage his ...
... idea is neither novel , nor confined to him . I have read fomewhere or other of an author long before his time , who , inftigated by motives equally patriotic , and a like vanity of his own talents , pro- pofed either to disengage his ...
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... idea , neither are they models of harmonious verfification , but they are not devoid of all poetical beauty : " The bards who once the wreaths of glory wore , " Cloth'd in translucent veil their wond'rous lore ; " The tales they fung a ...
... idea , neither are they models of harmonious verfification , but they are not devoid of all poetical beauty : " The bards who once the wreaths of glory wore , " Cloth'd in translucent veil their wond'rous lore ; " The tales they fung a ...
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... ideas of fațire he appears to be totally mif taken . Scandal and fatire are widely distinct in their natures ; yet he often fupplies the want of the one by the aid of the other . There is no fatire , for example , in the abuse which We ...
... ideas of fațire he appears to be totally mif taken . Scandal and fatire are widely distinct in their natures ; yet he often fupplies the want of the one by the aid of the other . There is no fatire , for example , in the abuse which We ...
الصفحة 21
... ideas- " Fortius utere loris . " . But I respect the daring mind , that , undaunted at the diffi- culty , courts with alacrity every opportunity of fpeculative enquiry ; nor will I laugh because the boldnefs of his ideas outftrips the ...
... ideas- " Fortius utere loris . " . But I respect the daring mind , that , undaunted at the diffi- culty , courts with alacrity every opportunity of fpeculative enquiry ; nor will I laugh because the boldnefs of his ideas outftrips the ...
الصفحة 26
... ideas and conjectural reflections . Why then may not others derive an equal plea- fure from any attempt to lay before them the portraits of great men of their own time , more interefting often because their history and their merits are ...
... ideas and conjectural reflections . Why then may not others derive an equal plea- fure from any attempt to lay before them the portraits of great men of their own time , more interefting often because their history and their merits are ...
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الصفحة 2 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 101 - Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
الصفحة 62 - tis enough to temper and employ ; But what compofes Man , can Man deftroy ? Suffice that Reafon keep to Nature's road , 1 1 S Snbject, compound them, follow her and God. Love , Hope , and Joy , fair pleafure's fmiling train , Hate , Fear , and Grief, the family of pain , Thefe mix'd "with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind...
الصفحة 9 - And more than Echoes talk along the walls. Here, as I watch'd the dying lamps around, From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound. 'Come, sister, come!' (it said, or seem'd to say) 'Thy place is here, sad sister, come away! Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, Love's victim then, tho...
الصفحة 47 - He fasted in the day-time, and watched in the night. All the inhabitants of the country had such a great veneration for him, and so highly valued his prayers, that they commonly applied to him, when they had any favour to beg of Heaven. When he made vows for the health of a sick person, the patient was immediately cured. It happened that the daughter of the king of that country fell into a dangerous distemper, the cause of which the physicians could not discover, yet they...
الصفحة 100 - Oreo. multa Dircaeum levat aura cycnum, tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos nubium tractus. ego apis Matinae more modoque grata carpentis thyma per laborem plurimum circa nemus uvidique 30 Tiburis ripas operosa parvus carmina flngo.
الصفحة 104 - Pallas guarded through the dreadful field ; Might darts be bid to turn their points away, And swords around him innocently play; The war's whole art with wonder had he seen, And counted heroes where he counted men. So fought each host, with thirst of glory fired, And crowds on crowds triumphantly expired.
الصفحة 125 - The figur'd games of Greece the column grace; Neptune and Jove furvey the rapid race : The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run; The fiery fteeds...
الصفحة 48 - ... he suggested to him. But the officers before they would yield to leave the princess, sent one of their number to know the king's pleasure. That monarch, who had an entire confidence in Barsisa, never in the least scrupled the trusting of his daughter with him.
الصفحة 32 - The LEARNED CRITIC calls for this liberality of judgment in behalf of the Poets, with whom particularly he was concerned. I find myfelf, juft at this prefent, very much difpofed to claim the fame confideration for the writers in Profe; having in my mind two paffages from two celebrated writers in that form, which I am ftrongly tempted to fend you. The late Dr. Ogden, who in my judgment holds the very higheft rank amongft the moji eminent preachers, in one of thofe excellent fermons on the fifth commandment,...